Specificity of antibodies against rodent transforming growth factor-α protein

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 695-701

  Aoyama, Hiroaki ^a   Kato, Hidenori ^b   Dixon, Darlene ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

anti TGF antibody; competition study; immunohistochemistry; rats and mice; TGF ; Western blotting

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CARBONATE DEHYDRATASE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STAINING; UTERUS;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0030972171     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002215549704500507     Document Type: Article

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